Gary Tyler, the former political prisoner who spent nearly 42 years in Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Penitentiary for a ...

At the event in Detroit hosted by the Library Street Collective, Tyler spoke about both his art and the broader issues related to the death penalty and the inhuman conditions inside US prisons ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - An Angola State Penitentiary employee is facing serious felony charges and was booked into the West Feliciana Parish Detention Center Wednesday. A judge set her bond at ...

Like country songs, blues songs never get any sadder than they do in prison. And there is no harder time done than that which is done at Angola State Penitentiary. It’s a musical sadness, however, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A federal judge decided that the Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola, violated the ...

A federal judge said a case challenging conditions on a Louisiana prison work assignment can move forward as a class action, opening the door for the lawsuit to impact thousands of incarcerated people ...

ANGOLA — Two inmates fatally overdosed in Angola State Penitentiary on Thursday morning, 20th Judicial District Attorney's Office Samuel C. D’Aquilla said. The Department of Corrections said the two ...

The gospel music flickers into range around mile 17 on the Tunica Trace, a trail formerly used by the Tunica Native American tribe paved into a 20-mile highway in West Feliciana Parish. As hundreds of ...

An Angola inmate, 33-year-old Patrick Jones, died on Tuesday, the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections said. His death is the second inmate death in a week at the Louisiana State ...